Product/Service

Pacing Leads

Source: Guidant Corporation
The Fineline II Sterox pacing lead family features the best attributes of the company's original Fineline and Fineline II pacing lead systems
The Fineline II Sterox pacing lead family features the best attributes of the company's original Fineline and Fineline II pacing lead systems, with the added benefit of a steroid-eluding tip on the coated-wire, co-radial, bipolar lead. In addition to the new steroid-eluding tip, the pacing lead family features:
  • IROX Coated Electrodes: A unique iridium oxide coating is applied to the tip electrodes providing lower acute and chronic pacing thresholds.
  • Co-radial Design: Each individual conductor is separately insulated with ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) and then wound together in parallel into a single coil. This construction allows for a thinner lead body.

The company recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the lead family and anticipates launching it in the United States in February 2001.

Guidant Corporation, 4100 Hamline Ave., N., Saint Paul, MN 55112-5707. Tel: 651-582-4000; Fax: 651-582-4166.